The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-02-17
Maritime Notes.

Vessels will not be allowed to call at any Central
American ports if they have touched at any infect
ed ports on the East or West coasts of South
America.
Messrs. Snow 4 Burgess, New York, have re
ceiyed a large and handsome oil painting of the
four-m -masted American ship Fred Billings,
loading coal at Car,lif, Wales, for Frisco.
Navigation on the coast of Maine is protected by:
a light houses, fog signal station, 444 spar buoyS,
. 9whistling buoys, Il bell buoys As iron buoys, 8.
beacons. Whole number OF aids to navigation
$50. On the two coasts of the United States, tie
whole number is 6,i09.
The Lighthouse Board gives notice that on and
after Feb. D. 1881, the tower of the main light at
Tybee, Ga. will be colored black to a hight of 30
feet above the ground, and that the front beacon
al that station will be moved 96 feet to the south
ward of its present position.
The steamer Winthrop, building at Bath for the
Portland and New York route, will he off in a few
weeks and be ready TO so on the route in May.
The three niastcd sch in the yard of A. Sewal \
Co., Bath, will be launched in April. In addition
to the three vessels already noted to he built 1T
Thomasson, 1n, Mes-rs Dunn s Elicit will build
will commence work in the spring on two 3-mas.ed
schs.
The North Atlantic Pilot Chart for Februl con
tans information with respect to recently ported
distractions to navigation and probabilities of
wind and weather for the current month, with the
best sailing routes to take advantage of the aver
age winds; Ice may be expected south of the
Nftnu bahkS nearly As lar as lat. II, Ion. ~ y til
rect course from American ports To this point and
thence to Cape Clear Is considered safe.
The Secretary of the Treasury has sent to Con
gresS letter recommending appropriations for
the erection of structures for the comfort of light
station keepers at certain light houses. Among
the recommendations is the following For a new
brick. double fog signal house at White Head
Maine, $3.50. At White Head there is duplicate
lninch steam whistle, for the accommodation of
which the present buildings are entirely made
uate, on account of which the new boiler built for
this station has never been put in place. The Ell
cheney of the service requires that fog signal
structures he erected ut this station As as
practicable.
The latest United states Coast Survey report has
the following changes in reference to the Maine
coast:
Moose-;i-bec Be;cl-A shoal spot has been dis
covered having but seven feet over it at mean low
water. This danger lies s. + from Noya's Rocks
/. of mile.
y recent examination of the southern entrance
TO South Vest tlarhor shows that depth of feet
EXISTS where the chart now gives but feet on the
western extremity of cranberry Ledge, and
depth of ll4a feet on the southern extremity of
Flvnn's Ledge, where ! feet is shown. 4
shoal spot OF Il feet WAS developed SW by W a
W from High Head distant .; of a mile.
recent examination of Woods Island, entrance
to Saco River, developed bank having over it ut
least water lols fathomS. The shoalest spot bears
from the lighthouse 81 = r, distant about ~,
miles.